Are Art Therapy Educators Overworked and Underpaid?

Abstract

Questionnaires were sent to the 22 AATA-approved graduate programs to survey the working conditions of art therapy educators. With few exceptions, the data from the 16 respondents indicate that art therapy educators' salaries are lower than national university faculty salary averages, that few are tenured, and that course loads are high. It appears that few educational institutions have made strong commitments to their art therapy graduate programs.